Starting at 6 p.m. at Drinkerâ€™s West, 39th and Chestnut, Alex Kushleyev and Daniel Mellinger will present their videos and answer questions about their nano quadrotors: miniature, autonomous helicopters that can fly in tight formations and have taken YouTube by storm.

By mimicking the swarming behaviors of birds, fish and insects,Kushleyev and Mellinger, along with the Engineering Schoolâ€™s deputy dean of education Vijay Kumar, are helping scientists and engineers create smarter, faster and more flexible robots.

People who came out for the new Penn Lightbulb Cafes learned from religious studies professor Anthea Butler how to interpret politicians' religious rhetoric, got a behind-the-scenes look from sociology professor David Gibson at the White House during the Cuban missile crisis and heard Michael Meister, professor of South Asia studies, tell of the difficulties cultural-monuments researchers encounter in war-torn Pakistan.

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At the fifth annual Philly Robotics Expo (PRX) on April 20, several hundred local grade-, middle-, and high-school students poured into the Singh Center for Nanotechnology with their machines in tow.
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